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[Android Apps and Games] winsettr:
For arguments sake (and hopefully being helpful) Widgetsoid 2.0 has never stopped working for me on all Android updates up to 4.2.1, including system toggles like GPS/wifi/airplane. It seems that would suggest the specific commands that Impel is using are different from those of Widgetsoid...?
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
winsettr, we know about Widgetsoid, but we believe that you are confusing the appearance of a feature that is like what is being asked for with what Impel actually is supposed to (and used to) do.

Widgetsoid can only ask the system to show a page where it believes the system GPS toggle, system Airplane mode toggle, system lock screen toggle, etc. is. That is not what Impel, Tasker, Llama or any of the other task automation apps can use.

Impel, Recast (and other's task apps) require a direct, system level call to make these switches change on command, then have the ability to read back the change and tell the apps that these switches are in a new state. All of that code is now completely disabled by Google, and there are no signs that these features will ever return. Asking the customer to wait for the phone to wake up, unlock the screen, show a system page and have them manually set a switch instead of having it happen automatically would be and is utterly pointless.

Because of these reasons we stand by our original post: these features were disabled by Google and are no longer available in Android 4.x.
[Android Apps and Games] 3ncrypt3d_Droid:
So its probably not as simple as to push this to system/ app?
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
3ncrypt3d_Droid, we're not sure what you mean by "push this to system/ app?"

What Google did is this: the only apps, widgets or panels that can now directly toggle the GPS, Airplane mode and Lock screen enable/disable features without any kind of customer interaction must be code signed by the system. This means that only the people building the ROM image, such as Motorola, Samsung, HTC, Sony, etc. or the CyanogenMod team may use these paths. They must sign whatever app, widget or panel they want to use these functions with the exact same certificate as they use on the actual ROM itself.

What this now means is that no 3rd party code, such as Impel, will ever be able to use these functions again, since we don't have these certificates and we will not be giving our code to these OEMs and ROM builders to have them compile and release the apps as their own. For all practical purposes these toggles are now gone from all apps in the Google Play Store, Amazon Appstore, and from any independent app builders.
[Android Apps and Games] 3ncrypt3d_Droid:
Thanks for your clarification:D

I didn't think it would be as easy as for instance taking root explorer and putting your app in the /system/ app directory.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Trust us: if there was any easy way to fix this issue we would have done it. Instead, for the past few months we've had to answer a steady stream of confused and angry customer emails asking why "we broke it." We then have to explain that it was the customer moving from an Android 2.x to a 4.x device that was the change and that "Google restricted it." Not fun times, we can tell you.
[Android Apps and Games] winsettr:
I appreciate the explanation, but I'm a bit confused; are you saying this is what goes on in the background? Because I have various Widgetsoid widgets on my homescreen, one of which is GPS toggle. When I press the toggle button, my GPS is correctly toggled and the status icon changes accordingly (and all of this is done without any settings pages appearing). However, toggling 2G/3G does not work, but rather a settings page is displayed like you mentioned. Thanks for help!

EDIT: Also, out of curiosity, do you know why Impel works correctly with alternate kernels (I'm using Lean Kernel and all toggles work flawlessly)?
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
winsettr, I wish I had the ability to capture a video and show you, but your explained behavior for GPS does not work on any 4.2.x device we have. Google has removed the system calls to do it, so when we tap on any widgets for GPS, Airplane mode or Lock screen on/off they do nothing. The system widget and system panel shows no changes, and in our debugging code we can see no callbacks from the system. In essence, the OS is eating the calls we make and responding with silence.

On the same devices with Widgetsoid, tapping its widget for GPS or Airplane mode does only take you to the system page. It cannot do the toggle in the background as you explain. I don't know how your device does it, but that isn't how it can work any longer on production devices with Android 4.1.x and 4.2.x.
[Android Apps and Games] winsettr:
Maybe it has something to do with CyanogenMod (CM10.1M1, Android 4.2.1) or Lean Kernel because I'm having no problems with Widgetsoid or Impel working...
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Well, our Nexus 10 and Galaxy Nexus both have CM 10.1 on them, nightly builds from the past 24 hours, and both of them require a visit to the system settings page to toggle GPS or Airplane mode. I don't know how yours works, but hang on to it.
[Android Apps and Games] idk:
Hi mstroud,

I was wondering if a feature you could add that the splash screen not show up when switching tasks? The problem I'm having is that I have a task to turn screen to max brightness when plugged in, and then switch back to automatic when unplugged. I'm watching youtube, and the the splash screen makes youtube lose it's buffer and have to rebuffer. It could be one of the benifits if you've paid for the app?

Another thing I know that I've seen before is that I've paid for the app via in app purchase, but it seems that it looses that setting sometimes and asks for me to buy it again. If I restart the phone, it's back to the paid version again.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
idk, we'll have to look into changing how the brightness settings work, since I know we had to put in those screens purposefully to support some devices that wouldn't take the changes any other way.

As for the app licensing pester screens, we have had some reports of this happening. It is out of our control how and when this occurs, since it is using all of Google's Play Store licensing libraries and services to manage that part. We spent quite a bit of time on that area last year but it seems that Google doesn't keep the Play Store client-to-server communications very stable from month to month. We'll have to investigate it again, but don't hold your breath that we'll find a quick or easy solution. Sadly, this is one area where Google hasn't done much to help we small developers out.
[Android Apps and Games] idk:
Not a problem. It's not a big deal. I usually reboot my phone at least once a week anyways. And only notice it maybe once a month at most. Just thought it was worth informing you.

Thanks for looking into the brightness settings. I didn't think they'll be required, but if that's the only way, then I'll live with it. Not really Impel issue anyways, more of a crappy Sprint data service issue.
[Android Apps and Games] Dodfr:
Can Impel help me fix a MMS bug thru some automation ?

I am facing a Samsung Galaxy Note (4.04) bug that prevent to fully receive MMS if DATA is off (on my HTC Desires S the MMS receiver can turn DATA ON temporaly only time to receive MMS and then turn it OFF again) and if I turn ON DATA and press the "download" button on the MMS, it do not download it.

I don't want to keep DATA ON if not needed and that's the way I did it with my HTC Desires S.

But I found a manual workaround that I would like to automatize if Impel can do it, here is the process :

1 - Detect new incoming MMS

2 - Check MMS sender's phone number or special sibject like "mms bug fix"

3 - check if DATA is ON

4 - if sender is my own phone number and DATA is ON then go to point 10

5 - If DATA is OFF then the MMS has not been received because of the bug

6 - Turn DATA ON

7 - Send a small MMS to myself with subject "mms bug fix"

8 - As DATA is actually ON, wait for my own MMS (can be detected looking as sender's phone number that will be my own phone number), and as my own MMS as been received I kown that all previous queued MMS has also been received

9 - Turn OFF DATA

10 - end of procedure

So technically I need to know if Impel can :

- Trigger on MMS reception

- Send MMS with specific subject

- Read MMS sender's phone number and subject

- Check if DATA if on/off

- Turn DATA on/off

Of course I will add some check to avoid endless loop.

regards.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Dodfr, at this point Impel does not support MMS at all. This is because Google does not support MMS via any known APIs or SDKs and our investigations have shown that MMS is implemented very differently from carrier to carrier. So for now Impel cannot assist you with your request.
[Android Apps and Games] sether52:
First of all, love the app. Been using it since you started. Secondly, can you add a selection on the first page for me? Basically, I'd only like it to send a text message to my wife when I plug in my phone between 430 and 630 pm on weekdays. I need to be able to select weekdays on that first screen. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
We believe that Impel already has what you are looking for: the option for selecting days is part of the "When this event occurs" setup. Take a look at the screens below for examples of what this looks like. Is this what you are asking about?

Edit an existing task, add another event

Pick a Time event

Pick Select days option

Pick the days you want to task to work on
[Android Apps and Games] sether52:
But, then you have to pick a time after that screen, and I've already told it from 430 to 630 on the last screen. Thanks for your help.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
I see, you are asking for a new conditional option, which is a set of days only. That isn't something we have in Impel currently, so I'll have to put this as a request for a future version of the app to the engineering team. Thanks for asking about it.
[Android Apps and Games] Pixelhouse:
purchased plus but i can't turn off/on GPS on my i9505 galaxy s4 please fix this
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Pixelhouse, this is an issue we cannot fix, as Google has removed that option in Android 4.x, sorry.
[Android Apps and Games] Pixelhouse:
Could you perhaps add this option for rooted users, since it can be altered when rooted.

I ask this because like Sync it can be a huge battery saver when used properly with a task, i think some people would like to have that option.

Thanks again.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
I'll need to check in with our engineers to see what could be done. I know that currently, on our own Nexus test devices running 4.2.x, the GPS enable-disable function works fine with root enabled. How this applies (or doesn't) to non-stock OS devices is an unknown.
[Android Apps and Games] sether52:
Thanks! Really appreciate real customer service!
[Android Apps and Games] Hay_wire:
Just a quick request.

Would it be possible to add the possibility for certain selected contacts to ring through and set the volume to ring at, when the phone is in silent mode at night so that only those contacts get through. This is an option in the Motorola Smart Actions I really miss on my Sony.

By the way great app:)
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Hay_wire, that may be a complicated request to fulfill. We had a similar request some time ago, except instead of phone calls they wanted emails to do the same trick: IF <thisguy@work.net> emails <myname@work.net> THEN set alert volume to 5 and play sound Droid AND THEN set alert volume to 0.

It is a pretty complicated thing to do, believe it or not, because Impel doesn't know when the sound event has started or stopped, at least not using the Android APIs that we currently use. I will ask the engineers again to see what they think, but I would say that this request may be quite a ways off from showing up in a release.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ranoko:
Hey everyone i was just wondering if anyone else has seen this floating around somewhere. I work at a sprint store as a tech and i just had a phone in that did not have normal software. Software number: 4.63.651.2 android version: 2.3.5. This evo has never been rooted or updated via a update.zip file. I was going to pull the system and check it out but i do not have access to adb atm. I attached a pic to try to find an answer. Very curios to see what this is. :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Notorious:
Interesting. The only guess I have is it might be the Korean evo4g
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ranoko:
that would be interesting... i have done many searches to try and find this software somewhere but no luck. It also still has Carry IQ on it so it doesn't seem like the update that removes it..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metalfan78:
I've never seen that baseband either ...interesting

We're comin from a pure power source.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devnulldroid:
If you go to the Market App it may show apps in english language, but if phone is from Korea it will show apps localized for Korea and not America. May be another country altogether in which case apps will be localized to that country. Language settings for EVOs from Korea will have English or Korean for language choice as well.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ranoko:
i have not checked the market. he will be back in next week so im going to have to check it out and possibly pull the system to have a look at it. Now if the phones software is Korea would it not write the modem to Korea spec and be in international roaming?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devnulldroid:
Looked a little closer at Korean version Raider/Evo 4G+ and it doesnt look the same. However knockoffs from China look exactly the same on the outside except it doesnt have hdmi port and some other things - http://micgadget.com/6703/here-comes-the-htc-evo-4g-knockoff/ There may be various version knockoffs who knows at this point. Let us know what you find out..curious on this one. ;)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ranoko:
will do ill make sure to dump the system as well and have a look through. Would be funny if it was a knock off and some how it came as refurb back through our warehouse ;) ill keep you guys posted when i get the phone back.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fitz420:
I'm also very curious to see what's going on here. What store do you work at? I live in pgh as well. I usually go to the penn center Sprint store. They've always been really helpful.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ranoko:
i work at the one in cranberry. Opposite side of town lol
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] arjun90:
We all have been waiting for...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNY8SYJ4P-c&feature=g-logo&context=G2e6ed97FOAAAAAAAcAA

First ICS on Samsung Galaxy Note

Visible Sign of Progress

- Cheers!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] intruda119:
Your a day late.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] venki5star:
Is this an official beta or whatever release of Samsung?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] senectus:
That looks ****ing amazing!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kanej2006:
Wow, seems nice and smooth, what an improvement over 2.3!

Imagine using ICS with Spare Parts+ and an alternative launcher, then it would be EVEN faster!!!!

I hope battery performance has also been improved.

Looks great & I'm looking forward to the official & final release.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
Nice hope we can get a non TW skinned ICS for the note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] robertberma:
Is this the ics from maui?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] -16-:
Yes it is.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Alexanderbooth:
Touchwiz is great why would you want rid of it? All those mint things Like status bar brightness adjust, toggles in the status bar and swipe to take a screen shot. I agree thetouchwiz launcher is limited, but touchwiz isn't just a launcher. I use go launcher because its amazingly smooth. If you want the total ics look all you need to do is install the launcher from it. But IMO even the ics launcher is limited incustomisation, compared to the the likes of go, adw, launcher pro.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kanej2006:
So it's not the official release, just a beta?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] graemeg:
well its not official is it, does anyone what it is, is it the cyanogen port by any chance because i notice in the vid its a modded rom with rom manager there and superuser, and it certainly doesnt look completely stock, so does anyone have any idea what this is?

Id love to give it a trial run but i need stability and i use the camera a lot so for me, its a case of having to wait.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
I have nothing against TW, just a personal preference. I also like TW but id like to experience the AOSP launcher. No need to go defensive.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] vcespon:
It's an pre-alpha by CyanogenMod, CM9, not by Samsung

As expected, camera does not work, and it's pretty buggy and missing features.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
Thats how CM's work you need to wait 8-9 months to enjoy the benefits. Till then stock roms are better. ( based on experience with S1 and S2 )
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] graemeg:
LOL, the Note and S2 will have official ICS by then
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kanej2006:
Thought so due to the camera not working. However performance looked great!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] LordManhattan:
The camera and bluetooth will work when they get their hands on the right drivers.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jcase:
For IceCream Sandwich

Please see http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1439429 instead.

Honeycomb and ICS users:

Download, install and setup OTA Rootkeeper. Not optional if you want to keep root after OTAs.

https://market.android.com/details?id=org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper

Special thanks to -viperboy- for putting his Prime on the line during testing, and Hawkysoft for convincing me to look in the first place.

[YOUTUBE]Wx65Qk6vJ-M[/YOUTUBE]

*Donations*

Are 100% optional. If you want to, take your pick, paypal to your left, apps below, or find a nice charity.

https://market.android.com/details?id=net.andirc.jcasedonate

https://market.android.com/developer?pub=Cunning+Logic

Release and Downloads :

http://download.cunninglogic.com/nachoroot.bin

http://download.cunninglogic.com/su

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...nsformer-prime-even-with-the-newest-firmware/

This is the support thread, feel free to ask questions here. Please do not redistribute my exploit.

adb push nachoroot.bin /data/local/

adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/nachoroot.bin

adb shell /data/local/nachoroot.bin --stage1

adb reboot

<wait for boot>

adb shell /data/local/nachoroot.bin --stage2

adb reboot

<wait for boot>

adb shell id

<if id is 0 / root then continue, else start over>

adb remount

adb push su /system/xbin/su

adb shell chown 0.0 /system/xbin/su

adb shell chmod 06755 /system/xbin/su

adb shell /data/local/nachoroot.bin --undo

adb reboot

Go install superuser from market:

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.noshufou.android.su
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Haro912:
Thanks jcase.

I used all my thanks for today :rolleyes: so you will get one when I get some more :p
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] biggem001:
adb shell chmod 06755 /system/xbi/su <--typo

adb shell chmod 06755 /system/xbin/su
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] 2fastkuztoms:
wow that release was quicker than I tought... my prime arrives tomorrow.. after unboxing this is the first step...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Evo_Shift:
Cannot wait until Thursday to try this out!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] RussianMenace:
Good stuff. Can't wait for my replacement to come in.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
Thanks! quick question. Will this be converted into an apk or app for one-click type method? for people with no immediate access to PC. since I've gotten my Ipad then now Prime, I haven't ever had a need to use my almost 10yr. old PC..lol. its slow as molasses. that's why I jailbroke my Ipad so i wouldn't need to connect to PC for iTunes for media n stuff.

just asking
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jcase:
Not possible at this time, will investigate root via app once I have a prime in hand, no guarantees however.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] RussianMenace:
Don't really need a "fast" computer for ADB lol. It just needs a USB port.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] tylermaciaszek:
+ 1 that would be awesome but ifyou can't no big deal

Edit just saw Jcase answer will not be rooting yet but thank you anyways good job you are a hero
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
sounds good enough. thanks again. no big deal. just wondering.

if you knew how long it took for my PC to boot up and open an app, you'd ask also.. It does have usb ports, its not that old..lmao. its all good. still deciding if I want to give it a shot now or wait till after ICS.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] JCreations:
Very nice work. Is there any way to revert this root?

For everybody considering doing this, do note that ICS is scheduled to release 12 January. Trying to update/upgrade a rooted/hacked tablet MIGHT BRICK your Prime.

So it could be wise for the majority of users to wait untill ICS before trying to root.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jcase:
mount system, delete su

Why would it brick if they just installed su (really dont know, would like to look into preventing it)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Doktaphex:
Process went flawlessly. Thank you jcase. :D

I must say the build.prop and standard gps.conf are decidedly empty, weird.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] LNKNPRKFN:
FREAKING AWESOME WORK!!! Thank you Jcase...Worked like a charm no hicups or glitches...we are now one step closer to Recoveries and Roms...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jcase:
odd, NachoRoot doesn't write to system so im guessing thats normal?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Doktaphex:
That's entirely my point. It just seems odd that they're so empty (maybe not so much gps.conf).
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] JCreations:
I'm not that into programming/rooting, therefor my emphasis on might. For the majority of users it might be just safer to wait those 9 days until ICS.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] MarkF001:
Since ASUS uses BLOBs for updates, it will most likely just over-write the system folder anyway. No more 'SU', but also no brick!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jcase:
Then I don't see the concern, re-run the root
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] rand4ll:
Was able to run the manual root through adb on archlinux by simply plugging it in, no drivers, no issues being found etc. I did it after downloading the update and used the postpone before each adb reboot. Which brings me to a question, could the reboot through adb have kicked off the update had I not used the postpone?

Once I was rooted in downloaded the voodoo ota rootkeeper app and backed up root. After that I temporarily unrooted with the ota app and ran the ICS update and was able to restore root without issue and now have a rooted prime running ICS. Simply beautiful work.

I ran it this way after reading it may not work with ICS and didn't want to risk not having root.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] -viperboy-:
Repost from my twitter for those who dont follow, might be useful...

@Techronico confirmed Prime users can downgrade to .33 from Asus support page, use my root tool & OTA root keeper, and go to rooted ICS OTA!

If anyone else can confirm this, that would be great!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] MarkF001:
:(jcase seems to think different ( and not in an Apple way )

Why ASUS why????:mad:
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] sythe179:
Jcase, can you look at the dev topic on the wildfire s forums, and see if you can help? We think we have a method for our exploit to work, just need some colaberation on ideas and such.

(Start from page 35 if interested)